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Tub: i^kdoei*. PDBLI8HKD TUESDAY AND KKIDAY. BY Ed. H. DkCamp. EMPIRE APPLE STATE. Missouri Now Has First Place In the List. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Some men who meet their bills never think of paying them. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A breech of kindness on one side □ever justifies a breech of ;trust on the other. You may talk about commercialism all you please, but the factj remains that in this democratic country of ours it is the commercialist that does something. Charlotte Democrats should not be so sensitive about independentism. Wasn’t it in Mecklenburg where the first declaration of independence was made in this country? We haven’t any admiration or re spect for the anonymous writer. He is generally a coward who seeks to vent his spleen on some one, and is not worthy of the admiration or res pect of anyone. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ It is not always the man who makes the loudest professions of Christianity that is the most pious. We have heard of Sunday school teachers who did not live up to their professions when away from home. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ When a man gets to the point where he realizes that he knows nothing, he gets to the point where he can begin to learn something, and the more he learns the more he be comes astonished at the ignorance there is in this world. Giffney was well represented in the City of the Spartans Wednesday. It was amusing to hear a Gaffney man and a Spartan discuss the rapid advancement of their respective towns. Spartanburg is doing fairly well for a town over one hundred years of age, but Gaffney, not over thirty, is going it by leaps and bounds and is setting the old town a rapid pace. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ They had a municipal election over in Chirlotte Monday. The contest ing candidates were Mayor Peter Marshall Brown and Thos. 8 Frank lin, who had served the city as aider- man. Both flue gentlemen, but Tom my was incumbered.with the “mor ally stunted anddownward tendency ” although he does not belong to that crowd, and it proved his Waterloo. They had a hot time in the old town, but no casualties resulted. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ It is evident that the Gaffney Manufacturing Company is largely predominated by vegetarians, for among its attachees you will find Wheat, Corn and Turnipseed which with an abundance of Rainwater, will thrive, and after the Cutting will make fine Grubb that can be prepared in tempting style by the Jewel of a Steward who has a supply of Wood with which to Cook it; but the Price will cut no figure with the Limestone Mill folks for they have Cash. ♦ The Democratic press of the country is getting right. It is crying for four more years of Grover. Whlie the principles for which the Hon. Peter Sterling stands are correct, and the press is correct in advocating them, it is morally certain that that gentleman neither seeks nor desires the Democratic nomination. Give us Gorman and Aycock on the ticket, with a platform of* M r. Sterling’s prin ciples. and if we uon’t wollop Teddy and his crew we’ll worry them so they’ll not desire to tackle the job again soon. We are not running this county, neither are we attempting to dictate how it should be run, but our excel lent board of county commissioners will make a serious mistake if they do not keep the good roads machinery in active operation. It is the heighth of folly to put large sums of money In machinery to stand idle. The rusting of machinery will do much more damage than to keep it bright by constant use; besides the interest on the investment is lost. By all means, gentlemen, do not retard your step forward by allowing the ma chinery to stand idle. BIOH YIELD PREDICTED FOR 1903. The Orchard* Hid Fair to Product- Double the Value of the Whcut Crop—Five Tree* to Every Inhabit ant of the State—Only One-tenth of Available Land Yet Planted. Westward the course of the apple empire takes its way. Missouri now’ leads where a few days ago the scep ter was hold by New York, says a Co lumbia (Mo.) dispatch to the Kansas City Star. The apple crop of Missouri for 11KM will be, at ordinary prices, $20,000,000. The wheat crop sells in average years at $12,000,000. If the apple crop yields what is now es timated by N. F. Murry of Holt coun ty and other officers of the Missouri State Horticultural society, it will al most double the wheat crop in value. There' are 20.000,000 apple trees in the state, and $1 a tree is the estimated yield. Missouri three years ago ranked flfth in apple orchards among the states. Twenty million apple trees, five trees for every man, woman and child in the state, are now growing in Missouri. 3,000,000 more than in any other state and twice as mauy as ten years ago. L. A. Goodman, secretary of the Mis souri State Horticultural society, says that despite the great acreage only one-tenth of Missouri's available or chard lands have yet been planted. Apple growing, according to Mr. Good man, is the most profitable class of horticultural pursuit in Missouri. J.C. Whitten, professor of horticulture in the State university, indorses Mr. Goodman’s views. "In an ordinary year,” continued Mr. Goodman, "the orehardist will not lose 1 per cent of his apple crop. The ama teur is too apt to dig and plant without care, exposing the roots of the tree to the air before planting. The roots should be kept in the ground. This is true of every variety of tree and is as necessary as that fish be kept in water if they are to remain alive. I would give this as the secret of success in the cultivation of trees: Handle carefully before planting. Do not expose to the air, and plant in good soil. If these rules are followed, the trees will grow.” The king of Missouri apples is the Bon Davis. It is firm, of good shape and holds its color well. A carload of Ben Davis apples shipped from Mis souri to Berlin sold there at $0 a bush el. A Missourian found Ben Davis ap ples labeled "Missouri” at a fruit ven dor's stand on I nter den Linden in Berlin. They sold at 10 cents each and had kept llieir accustomed rich red col or and sawdust (lavor. Other apples suitable for the Missouri climate are Gano, Jonathan, Winesap. Mammoth Black Twig, York Imperial, Clayton, Ingram and Ram’s Golden. The profits of apple culture in Mis souri would have been larger except for the ravages of the woolly aphis or the apple root plant louse. Karly in April this insect goes upon his destruc tive expeditions. In other states this plant louse attacks the limbs of apple trees, but in Missouri it bores into tin- roots. Its antics are so different among Missouri orchards from that of which it Is guilty in New York that scientists for a long time thought it was a differ ent species of insect pest. J. M. Stead man. professor of entomology in the Missouri State university, however, dis- co\ eml that the insect was not two. but one, leading a kind of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde existence. The Missouri river is the dividing line for the enemies of apple orchards. In northern counties little damage is occasioned by the insects. In the land of the big red apple, however, the woolly aphis and his kinsmen wrought large destruction until I’rofessor Stead man found that tobacco dust killed the insect and fertilized the soil. The dis covery was worth millions of dollars to Missouri orchardists and will be worth more. Ninety-five per cent of the root rot in apple trees is occasioned by the twig insect. More and more orchards are planted each year. When the unoccupied hind available for apple orchards in Missou ri is planted, there will be 200,000,000 apple trees in the state. At a dollar a tree the annual yield would be $200,- 000.000 or an amount almost fabulous as compared with the scattering and uncertain thousands yielded by the ap ple trees in Missouri a few years ago. The Missouri apple will soon have a place with the Missouri mule and the Missouri lien. CROP BULLETIN. WEAK IN THE ALPHABET. How’s ThUr We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for iny ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. K .1. CHENEY A CO.. Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for thn last l."> years, and,believe him perfectly honorable In all huslnss transac tions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West ATkuax, Wholesale{l)rugglsts, Tolede, O. Wai.djno, Kinnan A Makvin, Whole sale Druggists. Toledo, O. Hall’sCatarrh Cure is taken Internally acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Drug- Hail’s Family Pills are the best. iteport of condition of Different Crops Throughout the Mtato. Columbia, 8. C., May 5.—The mean temperature for the week ending 8 a. m., Monday, May 4th, was about 05 degrees, which is 3 degrees below normal. There were a few warm days during the middle of the week, but the first and last days were unseasonably cool, and un favorable for the germination of planted seeds and the growth of young crops. The ground remains cold, and owing to the lack of rain, has become hard and crusty, this being especially true of bottom lands and clayey uplands Frost occurred on the 28th at a few northern points, but did no perceptible damage. There was a quiet general rain on April 26bb, accompanied by hail in the northern counties, falling to a depth of six inches at Hickory. This rainfall was beneficial, but was fol lowed by drying winds, and the need of rain is again noted over a large portion of the State, more especially in the truck raising districts. Show ers occurred over the central and eastern counties on May 3rd, the ef fects of which will be noted in next week’s correspondence. The dry weather enabled farmwork to make rapid progress, and planting of the staple crops is nearly finished, except that some upland and almost all bottom land corn remains to be planted over the western tier of counties, and bottom lands in the central counties, though some have already been planted in the latter. Early corn is coming up generally, and much has received its first work ing, but stands average only fair, and are poor in localities, owning to the ravages of birds and worm*-, and to imperfect germination. Replanting is being done extensively. The weather has been too cool for favor able growth. Cotton planting is nearly finished, -nd will be entire.}’ finished the coming week if the weather remains favorable, but owing to the pre vailing coolness, germination is slow, and some seeds failed to germinate ) at all. Many such fields are being ! replanted. Some fields have fair stands and are being cultivated, but the plants look sickly. Tobacco is almost all transplanted, but is making no perceptible growth. Rice Is in the same condition, with growth at a standstill. The George town districts are being sown at this time. In a few localities oats are prom ising, and, while still poor, show some improvement, but correspond ents .repert the, oat crop generally unpromising with probably half an average yield. They are heading low. Wheat is also poor, owning to rust and the Hessian fly. Fruit continues promising, although pear trees are beginning to blight, in various locali ties, and peaches to drop in Charles ton county. In the same county a green louse is damaging white oota- toes. Rain and warm weather would be of great benefit to all crops. The town of West Point, Va., was almost entirely wiped out by fire last Friday. The loss is about $450,(XXL J. C. MjReynolds, of Tennessee, has been appointed assistant attor ney general of the United States. letter to K. M. Gaffney, Dear Sir:—You own several houses. Your reason for painting Davoe lead and zinc should be several times as strong as the man who owns but one. Lead and oil was good enough paint till the merits of zinc were found out. It was profitable to paint had and oil —it was then—but not now. The addition of zinc to lead makes Devoe lead and zinc last twice as long and cost no more; costs less—a trifle less, not much. Lead and oil is mixed i)y hand; Devon lead ann zinc by machinery. Might as well make one’s shirts by hand a^ mix paints Say it costs $100 a house o psint lead and oil; and it lasts three \ears Say it costs the same for Devoe ; which lasts six years—it will last ten years, in favorable conditiors, unless you want to repaint to change the color. The costs; lead and oil a bo or $30 a year; Devoe $15—probably less. Yours Tru ! v, F. W. Devoe <fc Go Sumo I.ottor* Tlml Mon Can Never Learn to Make. "Why is it that with some men some letters of the alphabet are harder to make than others and, in fact, that there are some letters that some men never learned how to make?” asked a young man who takes considerable In ti-rest in the matter of handwriting in the New Orleans Times-Democrat, “it is a rather singular fact that nearly every man outside of the experts is weak on one or more of the letters in the English alphabet. Sometimes the letter involved is a capital letter; some times it is of the smaller kind; some times it is one letter and sometimes another. In any event, you will find few men who are exempt from the fail ing referred to. “I know of one man who in spite of the fact that he does a great deal of writing has never learned how to make a capital P. He simply makes a stag ger at it, and, as a rule, the result of his efforts wil. look more like a small p than like the capital P. I know an other man who can’t make a small f to save ids life. He can never get the lower part of the letter below the line. He makes it look like a clubfooted b instead of an f. There are others who, when they try to make the small b, give it the long shank, and it looks more like the letter f. It is rather sin gular that those traits should hang on to a man’s writing for a lifetime, but they do it just the same, and if you make a few inquiries among your friends and acquaintances you will find that but few of them are exempt from this fault. “It is very much like the habit of spelling certain words incorrectly. Many men who are rated as first class spellers pass through life without ever in a single instance spelling certain words correctly, it is due to habit largely. If you should ask them how to spell the word, they would tell you. but, when they go to write it, that is quite different, and they wiM get it wrong every time. So they know, too, how certain letters should be made, but they simply can’t put them down on paper. It is a curious but common fault.” He Succeeded. A man arrested for murder bribed an Irishman on the jury with £200 to hang out for a verdict of manslaugh ter. The jury were out a long time and finally came In with n verdict of manslaughter. The man rushed up to the Irish juror and said: *Tm obliged to you, my friend. Did you have a hard tinu-V" "Yes." said the Irishman: "an awful time. The other eleven wanted to ac quit yer.”—London Answers. THE OLD RELIABLE ROM The Last Diieliuu; < icrjsymen. "When did clergymen cense to tight duels?” is a startling inquiry in Notes and Queries. It will be news to many of us that they were ever fond of that exhilarating pastime. But, as a mat ter of fact, the Rev. Mr. Allan fought a duel with Lloyd Delany, Esq., and killed him in Hyde park in 1782. He was convicted of manslaughter and fined 1 shilling plus six mouths in New gate. tOYJ k| POWDER Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE Hill Usual Preference. “What kind of meat have you this morning, Larry?” asked the board of trade operator. “Well, sir,” said the butcher, “I’ve got some fine bear steak and some beef that’s just bully”— “H’mph! Give me some lamb!”— Chicago Tribune. Qnlte Another Th 1 nK. “He was unable to meet his bills, I understand?” “Well, that’s where you’re wrong. He couldn’t dodge them.”—Chicago Post. Off for Oklahoma. Mrs. Senora Gray, accompanied by her son G. R Gray b-ft for Fergu son Oklahoma territory. Tuesday morning. Mrs. Gray goes toJvisit her son, Mr. C. W. Gray, who is in the railway service at that place. Mr. C. R Gray has resigned his position as ticket ngenf a* this place, which po sition he has filled with credit to him self and sa'isfaetlon to the company. For Cherokee county news take The Ledger. Woman—the crown of creation. A A IflNturic I!iiiIdiitk to Come Down. Unless some efforts are speedily made by historical societies to preserve the building which served for seven years as the capltol of the Northwest Territory it wil! be destroyed in a few weeks, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. It is a frame house, two stories high, with two rooms on each floor, in Vincennes, Ind. It was built in 180f», and. like most buildings erect ed in the west at that time, it is held together by wooden pegs instead of by nails. William Henry Harrison read ids first message ns governor of the ter- ritory within its walls. In August, 1810, Tecumseh and seventy-five of his braves came to the building every day for ten days, seeking a place in the council. It censed to be the home of the government on March 13, 1813, when the capltol was moved to Cory- don. A Popular Apple. A Russian apple, the “yellow trans parent,” promises to supersede the “early harvest,” wuicb has so long been popular in the middle west. SCOTT’S EMULSION Scott’s Emulsion is the means of life and of the en joyment of life of thousands of men, women and children. To the men Scott’s Emul sion gives the flesh and strength so necessary for the cure of consumption and the repairing of body losses from any wasting disease. For women Scott’s Emul sion does this and more. It is a most sustaining food and tonic for the special trials that women have to bear. To children Scott’s Emul sion gives food and strength for growth of flesh and bone and blood. For pale girls, for thin and sickly boys Scott’s Emulsion is a great help. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, 409-415 Pearl Street, New York. 50c. and $1.00; all druggists. Ninety Per Cent 'bprfpf'f Is one which is palatable, pleasant to take, JUlsl an( j can b e re ij e( j U pon to act gently, but Laxative tllorou g h ^yi cleansing the entire system of all impurities. Such a remedy is Mozley’s Lemon Elixir. It is a pleasant lemon tonic, acceptable to the most delicate stomach, and acts thoroughly upon the bowels, liver and kidneys without the slightest unpleasant ness. Sold by all druggists at 50c a bottle. Ti/f^loW « Mozley’s Lemon Hot Drops, without an 3 equal for coughs, colds, sore throat and J pfYlfin bronchitis. 25c a bottle. - 1 11 Elixir w WM USE LARfl ? THE t VEGETABLE'FAT SUPERIOR IN QUALITY AND RURLTV TO ALL.OTHERS OOKS ,IKE S\S Address SAVANNAH GA. *7$ SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO. THE CAROLINAS AND GEORGIA. of all chronic headaches are due to eye strain. Go to Dr. Griffith at the Chero kee Drug Co’s and have the defect in vision corrected, and thus be QUICKLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED. Glasses Fitted With Scientific Accu racy and all the diseases of the Kye, | Ear, Nose and Throat treated according to the latest and most approved methods. ‘For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. National Bank of Gaffney, Capital Stock, - - $50,000.00 Surplus and Profits, - 25,000.00 Stockholders Liability, 50,000.00 Total, - $125,000.00 Deposits ITeliy. 1903, $20Q,603.73, We solicit the business and good will of everybody in Cherokee county. ; F. G. STACY, President, D. C. ROSS, Cashier, J. G. WARDLAW, V.-Prest., MAYNARD SMYTH. A. C. “Money Saved is Money Made” I can save you money on anything in the various lines I handle. You'should see my “Superb” line of Clothing two and three piece suits. Pretty line of Straw and Fur Hats just received for Men, Youths and Children. I am still headquar ters for all kinds of Footwear—see me when in need of Shoes of any kind. I have just opened up a beautiful lot of Negligee Shirts from 50c to $1. Nice assortment of Lawns, Organdies, Piques, Madras Cloths, Batiste, etc. My stock of Heavy anc\j^ Fancy Groceries is selected with great care and I can save you money in this line. I carry a big line of Tobacco from 26c lb. up. Tennessee Sorghum. I have it in 5 and 10 ^gallon kegs and in half brls. and brls. at prices that move it out. I handle everything for the farm or farmer, such as Plows, Plow Stocks, Hames, Traces, Collars, Bridles, Wagon and Buggy Harness, Etc. While it is too wet to plow come and let me get up that bill of farming tools and also load your wagon with some of my brands of Fertilizer which yop must have. I handle only the best grades and guarantee prices. See me before buying. Respectfully,